News: Ubisoft, VC Funding, Vantrix, Kakiloc, Université de Montréal (0)
February 18th, 2007 · by Heri · startups, video games
- WellingtonFund reports that Montreal is #3 in VC funding The first city is Toronto, the second is Ottawa. However, Vancouver is close behind Montreal, and 14 start-ups didn’t announce their raise. Draw your own conclusions…
- Ubisoft expands its Québec operations. Ubisoft CEO believed Montréal has an “immense creative potential”, and apparently, the city has still lots of untapped talent. Jobs will be created by hundreds, and they are multiplying initiatives to get the best talent
- Vantrix Corporation has named Manish Jha as CEO Vantrix is a solution provider for the cell phone industry, and solves interoperability problems when dealing with multimedia.
- Benjamin Yoskovitz organized a successful Montreal Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast, Tuesday 13th
- Kakiloc, a mobile social network for Montreal, is entering beta version soon
- Université de Montreal is proud to have the most powerful shared-memory supercomputer in Canada. The altix 4700, from SGI Canada, has 384 processors, 1534 Go of RAM, and can handle 4,9 teraflops.
